Victoria Jaramillo is a Human Geographer and has been an ecological activist since 2019. In 2015, she obtained a scholarship to study in London, England, where she focused on human-environmental relations. There, she joined Extinction Rebellion, a civil disobedience movement addressing the ecological crisis. Se worked in this group at the Latin American regional level since 2021 until 2022. She co-founded the Movement of Environmental Organizations of Ecuador (MOAE), where she organized youth climate strikes at a national level. She collaborated with the digital magazine mutantia.ch by doing research on the harmful effects of Ecuador’s agricultural industry, and with a comprehensive post-Covid initiative called “The Eco-social Pact of the South”.

She joined Quito without Mining’s team of volunteers in 2022 and collected signatures to push for an anti-extractive popular consultation. Her team collected about half a million signatures. Victoria spent 2023 giving talks to 4,000 school students, leading the group of volunteers and conducting the territorial-activist campaign for the vote in favor of nature. The vote prohibited mining in six districts in the Metropolitan District of Quito. Victoria is currently pursuing studies related to children’s and women’s mental health, while continuing her advocacy work.